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In this movie we conclude our journey by looking back over where we have been and what we have learned. Throughout this course we have been from the basics of CSS to the more advanced topics. In Part 1 we looked at the nature of CSS and how it worked with HTML in terms of Specifications and Recommendations. We also discussed the different Browsers we need to take into consideration for designing and learned how our Rules are composed of the Selectors, Properties, and Property Values. We also spent a significant amount of time examining the different Selectors that are available, common Property Values, and what Properties are going to be available to us in CSS. We took a moment to look at the placement of our CSS rules and how that ends up affecting what gets applied to our document by resolving conflicting rules using the Cascade. Everything that we ended up seeing from Part 1 was looking at the nuts and bolts of how CSS works. In Part 2 we ended up looking more at how to actually use CSS to build things. So, in Part 2 we were looking at how to use CSS to effectively take our Type and modify it by setting things like Font Size, Font Family, Font Weight Ð a lot of different things going on with our Font, in fact, the Typography section was one of the largest sections in this course. We also looked at how we can modify our different Box properties as well as what the Box Model is all about anyway. We ended up seeing that we had the ability to modify what type of box something is to change how it appears on our page, so we can end up taking a list and turning it into a navigation bar. We also ended up seeing how we could control web Layouts by using our Float properties as well as our Position properties to place elements on the screen the way that we want them. We followed that up with looking at how we can further control our Lists, our Images, and our Tables as well as our Forms, and as we had seen, there are a number of different things that we can do with our Lists and Images and we spent a lot of time looking in the Images section on how we can use the Background property to use pure CSS images. So that was using our Backgrounds on Div tags that did not contain any information, or information that had been moved using some other CSS properties. In the Tables section we looked at how we can stylize a standard traditional table as well as how to create our own generic table-like structure that would resemble a table but, in fact, would just be a collection of other HTML tags. Then we took a look at what options were available to stylize our forms, and then we turned to our User Interface elements, learning how to control our Cursor, Outlines, and System Colors. Then lastly in Part 2 we looked at how to set up our Print CSS so that our web site would be more accessible whenever it's printed out, and of course there was more to accessibility than just our print purposes, but our focus was, indeed, on Print CSS. In the final part of our journey we took a look at some fairly advanced topics, and some of these topics really relied on our knowledge of things that we had talked about before, but it also may have relied on things that are outside of the scope of this course because we talked about utilizing JavaScript to control our CSS. Now while I did do a very brief summary of how JavaScript works, in the brief overview that I did do for your JavaScript was indeed an oversimplification, but you should be able to take some of that information and use it in developing your JavaScript skills further. After we took a look at how we could target elements and make them show up on the page and manipulate CSS properties we took a look at what the future holds with CSS3. We took a look at our different options concerning Selectors, Border options, Shadow options, Layout options, and our Web Fonts. Then lastly, we took a look at everything that we had done in our project previously and we looked toward optimizing our site for Modularity. And of course, the last section on Modularity may not necessarily suit you for the purposes of your web site or your particular style. Some people do find it helpful to have elements broken down into those separate CSS pages. Now, we have covered quite a bit in our journeys here, and hopefully you have picked up a lot of useful information and would feel comfortable creating your own CSS-based web sites now. I also hope that you had a great time exploring all there is to CSS. I know I had a good time showing you all the sights along the way. So I want to take this time to thank you for joining me on this journey and I hope that you continue to explore all of the aspects of CSS web design, and related technology. Now one thing to keep in mind, it's all going to change, so with this technology there's always something new to learn and so we are always moving to the next step. So again, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it.